Monkey Business Animation

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1. Open a New canvas that is

• width 210
• Height - 185
• Resolution = 72
• RGB
• White

2. Click the type tool. Select arial bold, 36 pt, black. Type in the word Monkey, hit the enter key and Business.

3. Insert a new layer. Control Click the text layer. Click onto the new layer 1, and click Edit Fill. Set the fill to 50% grey, normal, 100% opacity. Delect all by clicking select=> deselect.
 

4. Click Filter=> Noise => Add Noise.

• 30%
• Uniform
• Monochromatic

5. Click Filter=> Blur=>Motion Blur set to 4 pixels.

6. Control click the Text layer and turn the eye off on the text layer. Highlight Layer1. Click Select Inverse. Hit your backspace key. Deselect all by clicking select => deselect.

7. Click Image=> Adjust=> Hue Saturation.

• Check Colorize
• Hue= 59
• saturation = 33
• lightness = +5

8. Bring up layer styles by double clicking the layer in Photoshop 6 or Right clicking and selecting blending options in Photoshop 7.

Check Inner Glow. Set the following.

• mode= screen
• opacity = 80
• noise = 0
• solid color
• techique = softer
• choke = 0
• size = 5
• contour= normal

Check Bevel and Emboss.

• Style = inner bevel
• Technique = smooth
• Depth = 100 %
• Direction = Up
• Size = 5
• Soften = 0
• Angle =120
• altitude=300
• contour = normal.

Check Stroke.

•  Size = 2
• position = outside
• blending = normal
• opacity = 97%
• color =606103

9. Insert a layer. Link it to the layer1 by clicking the link on layer 1 while layer 2 is highlighted. click Layer=>Merge Linked. This will apply the layer styles to your layer.

10. Using your rectangular marquee tool, Highlight just the word Monkey on your merged layer. Click Edit=> Cut. Click Edit -=> paste. This will put it on its own layer.

11. Use your move tool on the top too layers so as to move the word monkey into the upper left corner, almost touching the edges and the word business is slightly under and behind the word business. Use the bounding boxes option to resize the word business by grabbing the center bottom of the word and dragging it up so that the height is 75% of what it was (check the options). Use the bounding boxes on the Monkey layer to Drag the word taller from the center bottom to about 130%.

12. Bring up layer styles on the layer containing the word business. Set the following:

Check Drop shadow

• mode= multiply
• Set the opacity to 100%
• angle = 120
• distance = 1 px
• Spread = 0
• size = 3
• contour normal

Check Overlay

• blend mode = luminosity
• ppacity = 43
• Gradient = black-white
• style= linear
• angle = 90
• scale = 72%

13. Right click on the layer containing the word business and select copy layer styles. Right click on your top layer with the word Monkey and select paste layer styles. Open your layer styles/blending options. Change the following on the drop shadow settings.

• opacity = 50
• distance = 9
• size = 13 px.
   

14. Open your monkey image. Click IMAGE=> Mode RGB

15. Use your move tool to drag the monkey onto your working canvas. Name this layer frame 1. Position this monkey so its one hand is over the tail of the Y in monkey.

16. Bring up layer styles/blending options on your monkey layer. Set a drop shadow with the following settings:

• opacity = 42
• distance = 12
• size = 24

17. Duplicate this image and name frame 2. Use the move tool to rotate the image about 2.5 degrees clockwise as shown on the options bar as you rotate. Use the move tool to position it so the hanging hand is exactly over the hanging hand of the parent layer, frame1.

18. Duplicate frame 2 and name it frame 3. Use the move tool to rotate the image about 2.5 degrees clockwise as shown on the options bar as you rotate. Use the move tool to position it so the hanging hand is exactly over the hanging hand of the parent layer, frame1.

19. Duplicate Frame 2 and name it Frame 4.

20. Duplicate Frame 1 and name it frame 5.

21. Duplicate frame 5 and name it frame 6. Use the move tool to rotate the image about 2.5 degrees counterclockwise as shown on the options bar as you rotate. Use the move tool to position it so the hanging hand is exactly over the hanging hand of the parent layer, frame1.

22. Duplicate Frame 6 and name it frame 7. Use the move tool to rotate the image about 2.5 degrees counterclockwise as shown on the options bar as you rotate. Use the move tool to position it so the hanging hand is exactly over the hanging hand of the parent layer, frame1.

23. Dupolicate frame 6 and name it frame 8.

24. Turn off all the layers frame 2-8, leaving frame1, the modified text layers(not the original text layer) and the white background on. Click the button on the bottom of hte layers panel that says jump to image ready.

25. Open the animation panel in image ready. Set the frame 1 on the animation panel to time of 0.1 second by clicking the carrot next to the time and selecting the 0.1 seconds. Then click add a frame(2).

26. On animation panel frame2, Turn off the layer on the layers panel called frame1 and turn on the layer called frame 2. Set the time of this to 0.2 seconds. Add an animation frame(3).

27. On animation panel frame 3, Turn off the layer on the layers panel called frame2 and turn on the layer called frame3. Set the time of this to 0.5 seconds. Add an animation frame(4).

28. On animation panel frame 4, Turn off the layer on the layers panel called frame3 and turn on the layer called frame4. Set the time of this to 0.2 seconds. Add an animation frame(5).

29. On animation panel frame5, Turn off the layer on the layers panel called frame4 and turn on the layer called frame5. Set the time of this to 0.1 seconds. Add an animation frame(6).

30. On animation panel frame6, Turn off the layer on the layers panel called frame5 and turn on the layer called frame6. Set the time of this to 0.2 seconds. Add an animation frame(7).

30. On animation panel frame7, Turn off the layer on the layers panel called frame6 and turn on the layer called frame7. Set the time of this to 0.5 seconds. Add an animation frame(8).

30. On animation panel frame8, Turn off the layer on the layers panel called frame7 and turn on the layer called frame8. Set the time of this to 0.2 seconds.

31. Set you optimize settings to gif 128 colors. Click file=>save optimized as and save your file.